Sentence examples for financial machines from inspiring English sources

Urban school boards are huge political and financial machines: the Philadelphia school board, for example, has 25,000 employees and an annual budget of $1.6 billion.Meanwhile, the voucher movement is internally divided and, nationally, weak.

The bin Laden financial machine blossomed, according to officials who have been informed of intelligence information on the matter.

And slowing growth could hurt the larger Microsoft financial machine, which has operated as a growth engine for two decades.

"Saul is a financial machine, as precise and informed as anyone I've ever been across the table from," one sports television executive said.

Without careful planning, investors who step out of the United States financial machine could find themselves shut out of the system when they move back home.

If such an event were to happen, he said: "There's a whole financial machine that would come crashing down, I would say.

He also provided the first real statements of government finances in many years; by 1598 he had become the effective head of the royal financial machine as well as a trusted member of the king's inner cabinet.

But the royal bureaucrats tried to go much further in regard to both the rationalization of the state's financial machine and the meritocratic individuation of social and economic forms.

Built in phases beginning in 1920, the building was the headquarters for the political and financial machine run by Alfred du Pont, one of the three cousins who created the modern DuPont company.

After the organization's creation in Afghanistan, Mr. bin Laden recognized that global unrest presented it with opportunities to expand its influence, as well as pump its financial machine.

The TV rights bonanza is further reducing British players to a minority, and solidifying the Premier League into a financial machine, still mostly powered by the expensive TV subscriptions and tickets paid by fans, which is sucking in talent from Europe.